Saturday, February 18, 2017

The Trump press conference the other day was a textbook example of 'culture jamming', as practiced most famously by Adbusters. The idea of culture
jamming is to use the power of your opponent against them, like in
jujutsu. So Trump spent a great deal of his speech railing against the
corrupt mainstream media. And mainstream media (if they are doing their
job) in turn have to report this without editorialising it, lest they be
accused of bias. The net result is the media in reporting Trump, report
against themselves. Furthermore, in addressing the American people
directly, Trump demonstrates the irrelevance of media gatekeepers in the
internet age. I image news editors are quaking in their boots. No
wonder networks such as CNN are refusing to carry live briefings. If you
want a historical parallel for the magnitude of this, think Henry VIII
and the dissolution of the monasteries. It might not happen now, nor
with Trump, but the writing is definitely on the wall.